You have to look at the real reason he wanted to go. It's so depressing when the club shows no ambition to even attempt to keep a player who'll be playing against us next year in the same division. You can tell from the tone that if Argyle had shown a smidgen of ambition to keep him rather than grab a few hundred grand, he'd have wanted to stay.

Never did believe the stuff about "the club had no choice, the player wanted to go yada yada dada". Exactly the same with Norris's strike threat, Hourihane's girlfriend etc etc. No doubt the argument will be put forward that it was a good deal for the club but that is a separate issue-point is that the deal was put forward as an inevitability when looking at Purrington's words, it plainly was not.

Ben had made his mind up regardless, he says himself that playing in the championship was to good a chance to turn down. Plus as said before we can't match the wages unfortunately. Also I think argyle were happy to take the money on offer hence the apparent lack of trying to persuade him. What ever the reason he's gone.

How does a League Two club compete with a Championship club when it comes to wages?

To state the obvious, again, we'll be in the same league next year almost certainly. Our crowds are almost identical, and the 7 figure FA Cup money we've had goes a massive way to evening out TV revenue.

But you are still missing the point, which is of course when the lad himself says there was no attempt to persuade him he could have a brighter future at Plymouth rather than Rotherham.

"But you can't turn down a chance to play in the Championship, even if it's only for six months.

"If you didn't take it, you might end up looking back and saying 'Why did I do that?'

There you go, that's why he left. Why would the club 'compete'. What they supposed to do? Pay him Championship wages in Div 2?

He wanted to leave, we have Sawyer, Rotherham have £300k to throw at us.

Good deal.

And Argyle have prevented acrimony within the team by paying premium wages to a player of minimum experience as compared to the other older more experienced team players who are presently quite happy with their own contracted salaries

"Championship wages" is a bit misleading as Rotherham struggle to compete with wages of most teams in the division. Especially with where they are currently in the league I'd be surprised if they offered players Championship wages when they looked so nailed on to be relegated.